Moving from Blogdown to Atom

I’m spending this morning configuring my notebook to use Atom, not Blogdown within RStudio. Why? I’ve migrated to an old iMac, and I use multiple screens to compose, whereas RStudio uses multiple panes and thus is difficult to use in this configuration. I also rarely use the R features. I also want to converge my environment with Nick’s. On the other hand, I’ve spent quite a bit of time screwing around with it - it probably would have been easier to reconfigure the default layout in RStudio. Oh well.

I installed “Markdown Writer” within Atom. This allows for per-project configuration files, which it creates in mdwriter.cson.

Installing hugo locally required a lot of wrangling to get Homebrew to work. After many tries, a failed uninstall of Homebrew followed by a reinstall seemed to work.

Not surprisingly, Hugo did not work out of the box. Building the website gave xml versions but not html. That’s OK - I knew that I would run into issues.

Now that I’ve focused on this migration, I remembered why I went to Blogdown - it’s support for citations via pandoc. Hugo’s support for Pandoc still is incomplete. I went back to Blogdown and the site built without trouble. I was still getting the same error messages on build, which I tried to fix by eliminating the tags and keywords in each post. It seems like the